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United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight

United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight

United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company’s Atlas 5 and already-retired Deltas. Equipped with four solid-fuel strap-on boosters for additional takeoff power, the 198-foot-tall Vulcan’s two methane-fueled BE-4 engines thundered to life at …

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